Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always, plenty of suggestions. Senate Leader Watson dusted off the old Equalization Fee, famed export scheme of the 1928 campaign. The blunt proposal of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, expressing the conviction of conservative eastern Republicans that the Board's price-fixing has been a futile costly mistake, was to abolish the Board at once and liquidate its holdings. Said he: "The Government can't artificially manufacture Prosperity for agriculture or any other industry...
...less respect today by public opinion than five years ago. One of the major reasons for this is its inability to allay the mutual suspicions between the various countries. "However, no one can expect more from the League than to keep peace," continued Dr. Bartholdy. "No one wants to abolish the League. We must make the best of it. In the future we shall have to look for cooperation on a greater scale, especially between France and Germany." The lecturer sees in the dual administration of African colonies one of the first moves toward this greater cooperation...
...been supported in this stand by eminent authorities: William J. Bingham of Harvard and Reginald D. Root of Yale; it has seen Amherst abolish the distinction between major and minor insignia and Princeton place all minor sports upon the same footing. These are all indications of a trend toward a similar...
Work Left Undone. The adjournment of Congress killed legislation to: 1) extend copyright privileges; 2) reduce immigration 90% for two years; 3) aid maternity and infancy welfare; 4) abolish the "lame duck" session of Congress (the Thomas filibuster was cited as a glaring example of the need for this reform); 5) build the Navy up to treaty limits; 6) dry up the capital; 7) put the U. S. into the World Court...
...possibilities opened up by this discovery are innumerable. Margaret Sanger will no longer be able to declare birth control a necessity to prevent overpopulation; her opponents will simply abolish competitive athletics and its dependent literature. Of course, there might be some difficulty in enforcement--"Freddie on the Football Field" would soon become as valuable as "Ulysses". In the same way a nation depopulated by war or famine could make a remarkable comeback by the importation of several footballs and a few stray authors. And as for the college students over emphasis may not be such a bad thing after...